<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Palin was for the bridge before she was against it]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by GreyFlcn http://www.grist.org/article/on-the-bridge-to-nowhere/ Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:57:20 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/on-the-bridge-to-nowhere/1 Alaska and Federal Earmarks

McCain: "Earmarks are bad!"

Alaska: "Received $379,669,715 in pork during fiscal year 2008, nearly $100 million more than any other state."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/01/palin-received-m ...

-David Ahlport


]]> Alaska and Federal Earmarks

McCain: "Earmarks are bad!"

Alaska: "Received $379,669,715 in pork during fiscal year 2008, nearly $100 million more than any other state."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/01/palin-received-m ...

-David Ahlport


]]> Comment #2 by Whiskerfish http://www.grist.org/article/on-the-bridge-to-nowhere/ Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:38:39 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/on-the-bridge-to-nowhere/2 The bit that really hurts

is that, as we speak, they're trashing a swathe of nature on Gravina Island (the island opposite the town of Ketchikan) to build massive roads to 'link up to the bridge' -- even though the bridge is probably never going to be built.

Never mind the planned 'bridge to nowhere', what about the actual roads to nowhere? Which contractor's pocket is being lined for building useless, environmentally-damaging infrastructure?

Ketchikan, which relies on unspoilt natural scenery for its tourist industry is allowing the State of Alaska to use Federal dollars to inflict a liability on it. (Tourism is is the town's largest industry.)

If that's effective governance, Ms Palin, then I'll be a dodgy civil engineering firm in your State anyday!

Whiskerfish in Africa (who, believe it or not, was recently in Ketchikan to see this nonsense for himself!)

]]> The bit that really hurts

is that, as we speak, they're trashing a swathe of nature on Gravina Island (the island opposite the town of Ketchikan) to build massive roads to 'link up to the bridge' -- even though the bridge is probably never going to be built.

Never mind the planned 'bridge to nowhere', what about the actual roads to nowhere? Which contractor's pocket is being lined for building useless, environmentally-damaging infrastructure?

Ketchikan, which relies on unspoilt natural scenery for its tourist industry is allowing the State of Alaska to use Federal dollars to inflict a liability on it. (Tourism is is the town's largest industry.)

If that's effective governance, Ms Palin, then I'll be a dodgy civil engineering firm in your State anyday!

Whiskerfish in Africa (who, believe it or not, was recently in Ketchikan to see this nonsense for himself!)

]]> Comment #3 by Pangolin http://www.grist.org/article/on-the-bridge-to-nowhere/ Tue, 02 Sep 2008 06:19:51 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/on-the-bridge-to-nowhere/3 Alaska's a welfare state.

The whole place can only function with massive inputs of federal government money stripped from the income taxes of people working in blue states.

With any sense the whole place will revert back to a few ports and a vast wilderness when oil prices make roads to nowhere a non-starter.

Put the Carbon Back

]]> Alaska's a welfare state.

The whole place can only function with massive inputs of federal government money stripped from the income taxes of people working in blue states.

With any sense the whole place will revert back to a few ports and a vast wilderness when oil prices make roads to nowhere a non-starter.

Put the Carbon Back

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